Tick-tack.



PATENTED DEC. 3, 1907.

F. J. NIGGEL. TICK TACK.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 13, 1907.

WITNESSES rarnn'r orrron.

FRED J. NIGGEL, OF JEANNETTE, PENNSYLVANIA.

TICK-TACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

Application filed June 13. 1907. Serial No. 378-762.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED J. NIGGEL, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Jeannette, in the county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tick-Tacks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to tick-tacks, and similar amusement devices, and the invention has for its object to provide a novel device that can be easily and quickly attached to a window pane for producing successive raps or taps upon the window pane, calculated to scare and annoy persons in close proximity to the window pane.

My improved tick-tack consists of a frame adapted to be secured to a window pane by a suction disk, and in the frame is resiliently held a spool or agitator adapted to be rotated through the medium of a string or cord, whereby the agitator will successively rap the window pane and cause a repetition or roll of sounds.

The detailed construction of the tick-tack will be hereinafter described and then specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a plan of the tick-tack partly in section. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 8 is the plan of a modified form of tick-tack, and Fig. 4 is an elevation of a portion of the same.

To put my invention into practice, I construct the tick-tack of a frame 1 made of strong and durable wire, the frame conforming in shape to a bracket having eyelets 2 at its ends and eyelets 3 intermediate its ends. Upon the ends of the bracket or frame are arranged heads 4 carrying suction disks 5,

these disks being moistened when it is desired to secure the frame or bracket 1 to a window pane 6, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawing.

Between the eyelets 2 of the frame or bracket 1, is resiliently supported by elastic bands 7 an agitator or spool 8 having notched or grooved ends 9. Attached to the agitator or spool 8 is a cord or cable 10 adapted to pass through the eyelets 3, said cord or cable being provided with buttons 11 and 15, the former to prevent the free end of the cord or cable from being drawn through the eyelets 3 by the tension exerted upon the agitator or spool 8 by the elastic bands 7 and the latter window pane.

In lieu of the elastic bands 7, I can use coiled springs 12, as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings.

The elastic bands 7, coiled springs 12 or their mechanical equivalent are adapted to maintain the cord or cable 10 in a Wound condition upon the agitator or spool 8, also to ment with the window pane 6, when the frame or bracket 1 is secured thereto. By pulling outwardly upon the free end of the cord or cable 10 and releasing the same, the agitator or spool 8 repeatedly engages the window pane, causing the notched or grooved ends of the agitator or spool to suc cessively produce taps or raps upon the window pane.

The suction disks 5 are adapted to firmly hold the bracket or frame 1, whereby it can be operated at a considerable distance from the window pane 6, but permitting of said frame or bracket being quickly removed from the window pane, especially when the operator or source from which the raps are derived is discovered.

The agitator or spool 8' is preferably constructed of wood in order that the window pane will not be scratched or injured, at the same time reducing the expense of manufacture to a minimum.

Such changes in the size, proportion and minor details of construction, as are permissible by the appended claims, can be resorted to, without departing from the scope of the invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A tick-tack embodying a wire frame or bracket, suction disks carried by the ends of said frame or bracket, a notched spool'resiliently supported in said bracket or frame, and a cord or cable attached to said spool and normally held in a wound condition thereon.

2. A tick-tack embodying a frame or bracket, eyelets carried thereby, suction disks carried by said frame or bracket, a notched spool resiliently held between two of said eyelets, a cord or cable wound upon said spool and having its free end passing through the other of said eyelets.

3. A tick-tack embodying a frame or bracket, suction disks carried thereby, an

' to assist in removing the tick-tack from a maintain the agitator or spool 8 in engage.

agitator resiliently supported in said frame tachably securing the same to said Window 10 or bracket, and a cord or cable normally pane. Wound upon said agitator. In testimony whereof I afliX my signature 4. In combination with a Window pane, a in the presence of two Witnesses.

- tick-tack embodying a frame, an agitator re- FRED J NIGGEL.

siliently supported in said frame and adapted to contact With said Window pane, a cord or Witnesses:

cable normally Wound upon said agitator, MAX H. SRoLoVITz, and means carried by said frame for de- ARTHUR BURR. 

